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miriam cooke
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Professor
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Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
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203 Franklin Center
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Campus Box 90414
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Phone: (919) 684-2312
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Fax: (919) 681-7871
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Office Hours: On Fall Leave
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Homepage
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Curriculum Vitae
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Overview
My interests are in modern Arabic literature and contemporary Arab culture. I have written about war and gender in Arabic literature and film and also about Islamic feminism.
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Specialties
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Research Summary
20th Century, Criticism, Feminist Theory, Comp Lit, and Arabic
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Research Description
Arab cultural studies
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Current Projects
"The Tribal Modern in the Arabian Gulf: the Past as Future. An examination of the production of an ultramodern cosmopolitanism with tribal values."
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Areas of Interest
Arab world
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Education
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- D.Phil.,
- Oxford University,
- 1980
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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President of the Association of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies,
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2001-2003
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Trent Foundation award for Muslim Networks Workshop,
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2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century,
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spring 2001
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Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary and International Studies award for Muslim Networks,
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2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century,
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spring 2001
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“International Woman of 2001" Award,
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2001 International Biographical Centre (Cambridge),
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0 2001
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Provost’s Fund award for Muslim Networks Project (with Bruce Lawrence),
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Listed in Who’s Who in the World,
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0 1999
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Fulbright Research Scholarship in Syria - "The Politics of Cultural Production",
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1995-6 September-June
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Humanities Institute on Gender and War, Dartmouth College,
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0 1990
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Violence and Post-Colonial Islam,
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Harry F. Guggenheim Consultancy,
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0 1990
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American Association of University Women Fellowship,
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0 1986
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Duke University Research Council,
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0 1986
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Social Science Research Council Scholarship,
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0 1986
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Development of exchange program with University of Qadi Ayad in Marrakesh, Morocco,
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Josiah Trent Foundation,
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0 1985
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Fulbright Research Scholarship in Lebanon and Yemen,
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0 1982
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Recent Publications
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- m. cooke.
- "“Inside Dissident Syria”."
- Al-Jazeera October 15, 2012
- (2012)
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- m. cooke.
- "• Feminism in Islam."
- Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions.
- 2012.
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- m. cooke.
- "“Arab Feminist Research and activism: Bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical”."
- Feminist Theory 2011 11:121
- (2011)
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- m. cooke.
- "“The Cell Story: Syrian Prison Stories after Hafiz Asad”."
- in Middle East Critique vol. 20/2, 2011, 169-188
- (2011)
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- m. cooke.
- Nazira Zeineddine. Biography of an Islamic Feminist Pioneer.
- Oxford: Oneworld Press (part of Makers of the Muslim World Series),
- 2010.
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